Advanced reports on the Barack Obama administration's strategy to "peel off" a majority of insurgent commanders from the "hard core" of Taliban suggest that it will be presented as a political route to victory in Afghanistan that would not require...
During Nixon's historic trip to China in 1972, his interpreter and I, free for a few hours, conscripted a driver to take us on a tour of Beijing. Somewhere in my files are photos from that day we toured the grim city of Chairman Mao in the time of the Great...
The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama should work hard on areas of common interest with Russia in order to build a "partnership, however uneasy," that would serve Washington's interests in key areas, including non-proliferation, energy, and...
Human rights activists and constitutional law experts were virtually unanimous in their condemnation of the positions taken on prisoner detention and treatment in federal court last week by President Barack Obama's Department of Justice, which one group described as...
Updated at 7:26 p.m. EST, March 17, 2009 At least 8 Iraqis were killed on an unusually quiet day that saw U.N. officials remember the deadly chemical attack in Halabja 21 years ago. No Coalition deaths nor Iraqi wounded were reported. As the 21st anniversary of the...
The Israeli Left may be the latest casualty of last month's war in Gaza. The fighting appears to have scuttled what remains of the Israeli-Arab peace process, as a nationalist bloc of parties opposing territorial compromise with the Palestinians now occupies the...
Returning home from a very short visit to London, I found the country in the grip of uncontrollable emotions. No, it was not about the looming danger of the radical Right gaining control. It is now almost certain that the next government will consist of an assorted...
Because one man, conceding defeat, didn't issue the typical statement indicating that he preferred to spend more time with his family, and instead launched a frontal attack on those who had attacked him, the foreign policy equation in Washington might have changed in...
There is a great temptation to cut President Barack Obama a certain amount of slack over foreign policy just because he isn't George W. Bush. He has a certain capacity for acknowledging and perhaps even thinking through complexities, and he was right about the Iraq...
Updated at 7:07 p.m. EST, March 16, 2009 At least 11 Iraqis were killed and 7 more were wounded during the latest attacks. One of the dead was a 12-year-old girl who was shot by U.S. troops in Mosul. One U.S. soldier was killed during combat in Baghdad. Also, Iraqi...
